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Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey,
by Orville Dewey
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Title: Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter
Author: Orville Dewey
Editor: Mary Dewey
Release Date: July 31, 2006 [EBook #18956]
Language: English
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND LETTERS OF ORVILLE DEWEY, D.D.
Edited by his Daughter Mary Dewey
INTRODUCTORY.
IT is about twenty-five years since, at my earnest desire, my father began to write some of the memories of his own life, of the friends whom he loved, and of the noteworthy people he had known; and it is by the help of these autobiographical papers, and of selections from his letters, that I am enabled to attempt a memoir of him. I should like to remind the elder generation and inform the younger of some things in the life of a man who was once a foremost figure in the world from which he had been so long withdrawn that his death was hardly felt beyond the circle of his personal friends. It was like the fall of an aged tree in the vast forests of his native hills, when the deep thunder of the crash is heard afar, and a new opening is made towards heaven for those who